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Co-Sponsored Bills
Legislation Co-Sponsored by Rep. Miller:
♦ 110th Congress
♦ 109th Congress
♦ 108th Congress
Animal Rights
HR 891 Dog and Cat Fur Prohibition Enforcement Act - To make all fur garments regardless of cost be labeled with species, country of origin, manufacturer, etc.
HR 137 Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act - To establish felony-level jail time to those violating the federal animal fighting law.
HR 503 American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act - To ban slaughtering horses for human consumption.
HR 2108 Human and Pet Food Safety Act - To provide the FDA with recall authority, give FDA authority to inspect overseas.
HR 1464 Great Cats and Rare Canids Act - To assist in the conservation of rare felids and rare canids by supporting and providing financial resources for the conservation programs of nations within the range of rare felid and rare canid populations and projects of persons with demonstrated expertise in the conservation of rare felid and rare canid populations.
HR 2327 Polar Bear Protection Act - To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to strengthen polar bear conservation efforts.
HR 2711 Computer-Assisted Remote Hunting Act - To prohibit certain computer-assisted remote hunting.
HR 1709 Pollinator Protection Act - To authorize $75 million in funding for the USDA to reserach honey bees in order to indentify the causes and solutions for honey bee deaths and colony collapse disorder.
Armed Services
Armed Services
HR 369 Transparency and Accountability in Security Contracting Act - To increase transparency, ensure accountability, improve coordination, and enable better oversight in the battlefield.
HR 588 Helmet Pad Bill - To extend the period during which members of the Armed Forces deployed in contingency operations may request and receive reimbursement for helmet pads, which are designed to better protect the wearer from bomb blasts than military-issued pads, that are purchased by or for the use of such members.
HR 1246 Military Readiness Enhancement Act - To repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
HR 691 Fallen Servicemember Respectful Return Act - To require the DoD to deliver the remains of fallen military personnel to the military or civilian airport nearest to the final destination chosen by the family.
HR 718 National Guard Empowerment Act - To elevate Chief of National Guard Bureau to four-star rank, creates seat for Guard on Joint Chiefs of Staff, gives National Guard the authority to develop equipment requirements unique to its mission within the states.
Child/Family
HR 588 Helmet Pad Bill - To extend the period during which members of the Armed Forces deployed in contingency operations may request and receive reimbursement for helmet pads, which are designed to better protect the wearer from bomb blasts than military-issued pads, that are purchased by or for the use of such members.
HR 1246 Military Readiness Enhancement Act - To repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
HR 691 Fallen Servicemember Respectful Return Act - To require the DoD to deliver the remains of fallen military personnel to the military or civilian airport nearest to the final destination chosen by the family.
HR 718 National Guard Empowerment Act - To elevate Chief of National Guard Bureau to four-star rank, creates seat for Guard on Joint Chiefs of Staff, gives National Guard the authority to develop equipment requirements unique to its mission within the states.
Child/Family
HR 471 Adoption Tax Relief Guarantee Act of 2007 - To make permanent the $10,000 child adoption tax credit which will sunset in 2010.
HR 2129 Feeding America's Families Act - To increase funding for anti-hunger programs, including food stamps.
HR 819 Prevention First Act - To protect Women’s Health, preventing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, and providing women with the tools they need to prevent unintended pregnancies.
HR 464 Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act - To ensure that all hospitals that receive federal Medicare and Medicaid funding inform rape survivors of EC and provide medication upon request.
HR 1964 Freedom of Choice Act - To codifie Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.
Civil Rights
HR 464 Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act - To ensure that all hospitals that receive federal Medicare and Medicaid funding inform rape survivors of EC and provide medication upon request.
HR 1964 Freedom of Choice Act - To codifie Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.
Civil Rights
HR 65 Lumbee Recognition Act - To grant federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.
H Con Res 44 Recognizes the 98th anniversary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
HR 1592 Hate Crimes Prevention Act - To provide assistance to state and local law enforcement agencies and amend federal law to facilitate the investigation and prosecution of violent, bias-motivated crimes.
Defense
H Con Res 44 Recognizes the 98th anniversary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
HR 1592 Hate Crimes Prevention Act - To provide assistance to state and local law enforcement agencies and amend federal law to facilitate the investigation and prosecution of violent, bias-motivated crimes.
Defense
HR 97 Accountability and Transparency in Ethics Act - To call for greater accountability for spending on Iraq reconstruction and for the creation of a commission modeled after the Truman Commission during WWII.
HR 369 Transparency and Accountability in Security Contracting Act – To establish transparency requirements for PSCs to give info on the number of personnel they’re employing, their training protocol, and activities. Requires contractors to receive rules of engagement, establish clear lines of communication, and extend Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act to cover all PSCs, not just those contracted by DoD.
H Con Res 46 To declare that it is the policy of the United States not to establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing for the permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq and not to exercise United States control of the oil resources of Iraq.
Education
HR 369 Transparency and Accountability in Security Contracting Act – To establish transparency requirements for PSCs to give info on the number of personnel they’re employing, their training protocol, and activities. Requires contractors to receive rules of engagement, establish clear lines of communication, and extend Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act to cover all PSCs, not just those contracted by DoD.
H Con Res 46 To declare that it is the policy of the United States not to establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing for the permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq and not to exercise United States control of the oil resources of Iraq.
Education
HR 1828 Teaching Fellows Act - To establish a national teaching fellowship program to encourage individuals to enter and remain in the field of teaching at public schools.
HR 549 Teacher Tax Relief Act - To increase the tax deduction from $250 to $400 to teachers for paying out of pocket for classroom supplies.
Emergency Assistance
HR 549 Teacher Tax Relief Act - To increase the tax deduction from $250 to $400 to teachers for paying out of pocket for classroom supplies.
Emergency Assistance
HR 1742 Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act - To reduce tax depreciation time on nonresidential real property from years to 5 years for those that install sprinklers.
HR 642 College Fire Prevention Act – To establish a demonstration incentive program within the Dept of Education to promote installation of fire sprinkler systems in student housing and dormitories.
HR 1142 Federal Firefighters Fairness Act – To establish “presumptive disability” law, which presumes that heart disease, lung disease, certain cancers and infectious diseases are job-related for the purpose of workers’ compensation and disability retirement, unless proven otherwise.
Energy
HR 642 College Fire Prevention Act – To establish a demonstration incentive program within the Dept of Education to promote installation of fire sprinkler systems in student housing and dormitories.
HR 1142 Federal Firefighters Fairness Act – To establish “presumptive disability” law, which presumes that heart disease, lung disease, certain cancers and infectious diseases are job-related for the purpose of workers’ compensation and disability retirement, unless proven otherwise.
Energy
HR 197 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 5-year extension of the credit for electricity produced from certain renewable resources.
HR1300 PROGRESS Act (Program for Real Energy Security) – Energy Independence Initiative; alternative fuels infrastructure, vehicle technology, conservation, and transit.
HR 1331 Hybrid Tax incentives - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for new qualified plug-in hybrid motor vehicles.
HR1300 PROGRESS Act (Program for Real Energy Security) – Energy Independence Initiative; alternative fuels infrastructure, vehicle technology, conservation, and transit.
HR 1331 Hybrid Tax incentives - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for new qualified plug-in hybrid motor vehicles.
HR 550 Securing America’s Energy Independence Act - To extend through 2016 the energy tax credit for solar energy property, fuel cell property and residential energy efficient property expenditures.
Environment
HR 2516 National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Act - To protect inventoried roadless areas in the National Forest System.
HR 2169 Clean Water Protection Act - To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify that fill material cannot be comprised of waste.
HR 1157 Breast Cancer & Environmental Reserach Act - To provide critical support ($40 million per year in Fiscal Years 2008-2012) necessary to investigate the relationship between environmental factors and breast cancer.
HR 39 Udall-Eisenhower Wilderness Act – To permanently protect the coastal plain of ANWR from oil and gas drilling by designating the area as wilderness.
HR 1919 America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act - To designate part of Utah’s red rock country as permanent wilderness, protecting it from oil and gas drilling and off road vehicles.
HR1507 Salmon Economic Analysis and Planning Act - To provide for information gathering and planning for the recovery of salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River basin.
Financial Services
HR 2169 Clean Water Protection Act - To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify that fill material cannot be comprised of waste.
HR 1157 Breast Cancer & Environmental Reserach Act - To provide critical support ($40 million per year in Fiscal Years 2008-2012) necessary to investigate the relationship between environmental factors and breast cancer.
HR 39 Udall-Eisenhower Wilderness Act – To permanently protect the coastal plain of ANWR from oil and gas drilling by designating the area as wilderness.
HR 1919 America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act - To designate part of Utah’s red rock country as permanent wilderness, protecting it from oil and gas drilling and off road vehicles.
HR1507 Salmon Economic Analysis and Planning Act - To provide for information gathering and planning for the recovery of salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River basin.
Financial Services
HR 556 National Security Foreign Investment Reform and Strengthened Transparency Act - To provide more transparency and accountability to the review process.
Government Reform
Government Reform
HR 985 The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act - To strengthen the protections for federal whistleblowers who report waste, fraud, and abuse.
Gun Control
Gun Control
HR 1022 Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act - To reinstate the assault weapons ban that increased public safety and kept guns away from criminals. It also adds to the 109th bill (HR 1312) by including a provision that makes it difficult for individuals to purchase or sell parts of semi-automatic weapons.
Health Care
Health Care
HR 758 The Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act - To require that health plans provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies, lumpectomies, and lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer and coverage for secondary consultations.
HR 1134 Physical Therapist Student Loan Repayment Eligibility Act - To add physical therapists as eligible professionals for the National Health Services Corp’s student loan repayment plan. It will enable physical therapists to reach underserved communities, by addressing the debt load of PT students.
HR 621 The Home Oxygen Protection Act - To protect the nearly one million oxygen patients in the Medicare program, by repealing the change in Medicare policy for oxygen therapy enacted in the DRA that requires these beneficiaries to own the complex oxygen equipment.
HR 1367 The Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act - To equalize mental health and addiction benefits with other health care benefits.
HR 1277 The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefits Gap Elimination Act - To eliminate the gap in benefits between standard coverage and catastrophic coverage under the Medicare prescription drug program under part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act.
HR 971 The Community Pharmacy Fairness Act - To change antitrust law to give independent pharmacies more leverage when they negotiate reimbursement rates with insurance companies, Pharmacy Benefit Managers and Medicare Part-D plans.
HR 2295 ALS Registry Act - To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment of an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Registry.
HR 1536 Perscription Coverage Now Act - To expand the enrollment of the retired working poor and those with disabilities in Medicare Part D.
HR 821 Everyone Deserves Unconditional Access to Education Act (EDUCATE Act) – To mandate gradual increases in Individuals with Disabilities Education Act funding over the next 7 years and mandate full 40% funding of IDEA in FY 2015 and each subsequent fiscal year.
HR 1188 The Psorias
HR 1134 Physical Therapist Student Loan Repayment Eligibility Act - To add physical therapists as eligible professionals for the National Health Services Corp’s student loan repayment plan. It will enable physical therapists to reach underserved communities, by addressing the debt load of PT students.
HR 621 The Home Oxygen Protection Act - To protect the nearly one million oxygen patients in the Medicare program, by repealing the change in Medicare policy for oxygen therapy enacted in the DRA that requires these beneficiaries to own the complex oxygen equipment.
HR 1367 The Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act - To equalize mental health and addiction benefits with other health care benefits.
HR 1277 The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefits Gap Elimination Act - To eliminate the gap in benefits between standard coverage and catastrophic coverage under the Medicare prescription drug program under part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act.
HR 971 The Community Pharmacy Fairness Act - To change antitrust law to give independent pharmacies more leverage when they negotiate reimbursement rates with insurance companies, Pharmacy Benefit Managers and Medicare Part-D plans.
HR 2295 ALS Registry Act - To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment of an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Registry.
HR 1536 Perscription Coverage Now Act - To expand the enrollment of the retired working poor and those with disabilities in Medicare Part D.
HR 821 Everyone Deserves Unconditional Access to Education Act (EDUCATE Act) – To mandate gradual increases in Individuals with Disabilities Education Act funding over the next 7 years and mandate full 40% funding of IDEA in FY 2015 and each subsequent fiscal year.
HR 1188 The Psorias